Whither Fanon?

Studies in the Blackness of Being

David Marriott (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2018 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0572-5 (ISBN)

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Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who had the improbable task of treating disturbed and traumatized North African patients during the wars of decolonization. Investigating and foregrounding the clinical system that Fanon devised in an attempt to intervene against negrophobia and anti-blackness, this book rereads his clinical and political work together, arguing that the two are mutually imbricated. For the first time, Fanon's therapeutic innovations are considered along with his more overtly political and cultural writings to ask how the crises of war affected his practice, informed his politics, and shaped his subsequent ideas. As David Marriott suggests, this combination of the clinical and political involves a psychopolitics that is, by definition, complex, difficult, and perpetually challenging. He details this psychopolitics from two points of view, focusing first on Fanon's sociotherapy, its diagnostic methods and concepts, and second, on Fanon's cultural theory more generally. In our present climate of fear and terror over black presence and the violence to which it gives rise, Whither Fanon? reminds us of Fanon's scandalous actuality and of the continued urgency of his message.

David Marriott is Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Introduction
1. Psychodramas
2. The Clinic as Praxis
3. Negrophobogenesis
4. Historicity and Guilt
5. Racial Fetishism
6. Desire and Law
7. The Condemned
8. Invention
9. Existence
10. The Abyssal

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Cultural Memory in the Present
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5036-0572-8 / 1503605728
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-0572-5 / 9781503605725
Zustand	Neuware